The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler Olmsted Kathryn S.
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler Olmsted Kathryn S. How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The…
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler Olmsted Kathryn S.
How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The media empires of Robert McCormick, Joseph and Eleanor Patterson, and William Randolph Hearst spanned the United States, reaching tens of millions of Americans in print and over the airwaves with their isolationist views. The parallels with today's right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable."--Matthew Pressman, Washington Post "A first-rate work of history."--Ben Yagoda, Wall Street JournalAs World War II approached, the six most powerful media moguls in America and Britain tried to pressure their countries to ignore the fascist threat.
Meanwhile in England, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail extolled Hitler's leadership and Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express insisted that Britain had no